Give me the luxuries and I can dispense with the necessities.

ever since I met you I have admired you more than any girl...I have ever met since...I met you.

Those who try to lead the people can only do so by following the mob.

The State is to make what is useful. The individual is to make what is beautiful.

Public Opinion... an attempt to organize the ignorance of the community, and to elevate it to the dignity of physical force.

Human life--that appeared to him the one thing worth investigating. Compared to it there was nothing else of any value. It was true that as one watched life in its curious crucible of pain and pleasure, one could not wear over one's face a mask of glass, nor keep the sulphurous fumes from troubling the brain and making the imagination turbid with monstrous fancies and misshapen dreams.

Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.